Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church
Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church
HER Number
7286
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
United Methodist Free Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Nonconformist church, now Borough offices. 1856-57 by Benjamin Green for United Free Methodists. Sandstone ashlar front, rubble left return, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. Three arched panels contain double doors under fanlights. Sash windows. The Free Methodist Church was formed in North Shields in 1850 by the Wesleyan Association, the Protestant Methodists and Armenian Methodists. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
435677
Northing
568422
Grid Reference
NZ435677568422
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 14/85; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, p 376; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 527; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside